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Spring 2008 Issue - "Training Black Belt Journalists to Help Save Lives," UGA Research
By Patricia Thomas
It’s a sad day in these parts every fall when state-by-state health rankings are published, as nine of the 10 unhealthiest states are in the South. Georgia was among them for four years, but in 2007 it clambered up to 40th place.
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May 2008 - Third Gnat Line Briefing Challenges Reporters
Nationally known investigative reporters urged participants at the 2008 Gnat Line News Briefing to dig deep when writing about new medical findings, uncovering the real stories that affect people's lives.
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April 2008 - Students Live-blog at Health Journalism Conference
Armed with laptops, conference schedules and the desire to process information quickly, Grady College graduate students in health and medical journalism got a taste of real-world reporting in a new media environment recently.
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April 2008 - AIDS Vaccines Expert Final Speaker in '08 Series
There's been plenty of bad news about AIDS vaccines since the U.S. government shut down a major clinical trial last fall. Physician and vaccine researcher Anne De Groot will explain why this pessimism is unwarranted when she speaks at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, April 15, delivering the final lecture in the 2008 "Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard" series.
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March 2008 - Carter Center Scientist Next Speaker in Series
Frank O. Richards, a Carter Center scientist whose mass drug treatment programs have saved millions of people in Africa and Latin America, will bring 25 years of experience and insight to the University of Georgia on March 18, when he is featured in the "Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard" lecture series.
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March 2008 - Ethnic Media Attend Grady/NAM Workshop
Grady College recently took an important step in increasing its relations with ethnic media publications during a weekend workshop that focused on important concerns in the journalism industry—innovation, technology and in-depth reporting.
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February 2008 - Health expert urges change
Jim Yong Kim, one of Time's persons of the year in 2006 and former director for the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS unit, spoke to more than 150 people in the University chapel, addressing issues such as universal health care access for poverty-stricken nations and the status of the U.S.'s "broken" health care system.
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February 2008 - Kim Offers New Approach to Public Health Problems
Jim Yong Kim, director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard's School of Public Health, will introduce new ways of tackling worldwide public health challenges at the next "Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard" lecture at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
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January 2008 - Program helps fight HIV/AIDS stigmas
Africa's youth are waging their own battle against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, unsheathing imagination and video cameras in lieu of heavy artillery.
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January 2008 - Short movies educate nations on HIV/AIDS
People may love movies, even those projecting a message.
But when it comes to the subject of HIV/AIDS, filmmakers have to be creative with ways to reach the people most impacted by the disease.
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January 2008 - Innovative HIV/AIDS Communicator to Kick off Global Diseases Series
Kate Winskell, one of the world's most innovative health communicators, kicks off the third "Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard" lecture series at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, January 15 at 6 p.m.
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November 2007 - Grady Graduate Students See the Real New Orleans
In early November, a group of Grady College graduate students confronted two faces of post-Katrina New Orleans in three densely packed days.
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July 2007 - Ethnic Media Explore New Face of the South
When Sandy Close, executive director of New America Media, started planning an immigration conference for journalists and advocates months ago, she only had to think to the main sentiment from the previous summit last September—"Go South."
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June 2007 - Thomas Discusses Anthrax Attacks and Press Role
Patricia Thomas, Grady College's Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism, was an invited speaker at the annual symposium of the New York Academy of Medicine and Royal Society of Medicine of London.
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May 2007 - Op-Ed: AIDS Fight Takes a Village
Patricia Thomas holds the Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism at the Grady College. Her May 18 op-ed, reprinted below, appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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May 2007 - Second Gnat Line Briefing a Hit with Reporters
New strategies for covering local hospitals' quality of care and financial soundness were among the topics spotlighted during the 2007 Gnat Line News Briefing: Real Health and Medical News for Working Reporters.
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April 2007 - Veteran Reporter to Discuss Role in Breaking Bad News
Dick Thompson will discuss his role in alerting the world to infectious disease outbreaks and how the WHO responds on Wednesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. in the University of Georgia Chapel.
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March 2007 - Rotavirus Fighter Next Global Diseases Speaker
Rotavirus infections hospitalize 55,000 U.S. children each year and kill more than 600,000 worldwide. Roger Glass, whose work showed that an effective vaccine could keep this from happening, will discuss "Global Health in the 21st Century: Lessons from Rotavirus" on Monday, March 26 at 6 p.m. in the University of Georgia chapel.
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March 2007 - Medical Apartheid Author Speaks to Graduate Students
Most of us have experienced sweaty palms in a doctor or dentist's waiting room, but African-Americans have especially sound reasons for experiencing what author Harriet A. Washington called iatrophobia, the fear of healers.
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February 2007 - New America Media Director to Visit Grady
Sandy Close, an Academy Award winner who has also won a MacArthur Foundation “genius award,” visits Grady College on Tuesday, March 6, to discuss changing times in the news business and the influence of ethnic and youth media.
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February 2007 - Rosenberg Working to Change Female Face of AIDS
AIDS, one of the greatest pandemics in history, increasingly has a woman's face. One of those faces is Zeda Rosenberg's, chief executive officer of the International Partnership for Microbicides, headquartered in Silver Spring, Md.
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February 2007 - Defender of Protecting Women Against HIV Featured
The global AIDS pandemic had claimed thousands of lives before scientists realized that a single act of unprotected sex is twice as dangerous for a woman as for a man. Not only are women more biologically vulnerable to HIV, but the refusal of male partners to use condoms dramatically increases the risk of infection in many societies.
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January 2007 - Graduate Student Empowering At-Risk Women
In Georgia, nearly 30 percent of all women face domestic violence. Grady College doctoral student Lenette Golding is doing her part to raise awareness of such facts and to empower women through communication efforts including class projects, news articles, a service-learning project, research and even a cell phone drive.
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January 2007 - Elephantiasis Fighter Kicks off '07 Lecture Series
Anyone who pored over encyclopedias as a child remembers nightmare images of people with limbs swollen like enormous tubers. What few recall, however, is that elephantiasis is an advanced form of a worm infection that causes a range of sickness in more than 100 million people worldwide.
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November 2006 - Grady Issued Second National Academies Invite
For the second year in a row, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will have the honor of sending two science writing graduate students to the prestigious National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif.
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October 2006 - Investigative Reporter Visits Grady Graduate Class
She is a doctor's worst nightmare. When Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Alison Young went to the hospital in late August with a gastrointestinal illness, she came armed with a wealth of medical knowledge gained during her 18 years as a reporter.
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August 2006 - Grady Classes Host Athens Media Representatives
Graduate students in Patricia Thomas' JRMC 8350 "special topics" course in health and medical journalism and undergraduate students in Mark Johnson's JOUR 3710 advanced photojournalism course are joining forces in a unique project that will allow both groups to showcase their talents and possibly get published in the local media.
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May 2006 - Thomas to keynote Atlanta HIV Event
Patricia Thomas, the University of Georgia’s Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism, will keynote a HIV Vaccine Awareness Day event in Atlanta on Thursday, May 18. Thomas will address “The Politics Behind the Search for an AIDS Vaccine” at the Lefont Plaza Theater, 1049 Ponce de Leon Avenue. A 6:30 p.m. reception will be followed by a 7 p.m. showing of the documentary film Ending AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine. Thomas will speak immediately following the film.
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May 2006 -
Harvard Expert to Explore Health/Mass Comm. Connection in Monday Lecture
A Harvard health expert will discuss how journalism, sitcoms and carefully orchestrated health campaigns in the United States can lessen disparities between rich and poor people during a lecture on Monday, May 15, at the University of Georgia.
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April 2006 -
Grady's Thomas Speaks at Coverdell Dedication
Patricia Thomas, Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism at Grady College, was an invited speaker at the recent dedication of UGA's Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences. She was the only faculty member to speak at the dedication and delivered her remarks directly following keynote speaker and former U.S. President, George H. W. Bush.
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April 2006 -
Mutant-mosquito Designer Brings Global Diseases Series to a Close
Scientist Tony James calls mosquitoes "the world's most dangerous animal." The molecular biologist believes so strongly in the lethal power of these common pests that he has devoted his career to creating mosquito mutants incapable of spreading certain vector-borne infectious diseases.
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March 2006 -
AIDS Pioneer Featured in Global Diseases Lecture
One of the first scientists to grasp the devastating potential of the AIDS epidemic will speak at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, March 28, as part of the "Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard" lecture series.
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March 2006 -
Hot Stories Abound at Gnat Line News Briefing
"You have a better chance of surviving sudden cardiac arrest in a bustling casino than in rural Georgia," Dr. Eric Ossmann told a group of reporters during the Gnat Line News Briefing, held February 19-21 at Lake Blackshear Resort near Cordele.
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February 2006 -
Hookworm Warrior to Speak at Second Global Diseases Lecture
Few modern-day Georgians realize that 40 percent of Southerners were infected with hookworm a century ago. The gaunt bodies and distended bellies that marked hookworm sufferers have disappeared because most people now wear shoes, use indoor toilets and eat more protein than their ancestors.
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December 2005 -
Global Disease Hero Kicks Off New Lecture Series
Victoria Hale, an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur who defied skeptics by launching the first successful non-profit pharmaceutical company, will be the inaugural speaker for a new University of Georgia-sponsored lecture series featuring heroes in the global battle against premature death and disease.
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November 2005 -
Grady Graduate Students Fill Important Role at National Academies Conference
How will the fruits of the Human Genome Project be used to save millions of lives in the coming years? That’s what two graduate students from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will be learning and writing about at the prestigious National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference in Irvine, Calif.
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October 2005 -
Grady's New Knight Chair Officially Welcomed
Athens, Ga. - Patricia Thomas, the first holder of the Knight Chair for Health and Medical Journalism at the Grady College, was officially honored with a welcome reception in the college's Peabody Suite Wednesday evening.
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March 2005 - Patricia Thomas Named Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism
Athens, Ga. - An award-winning author, journalist and editor has been named the first holder of the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism at the University of Georgia, responsible for a major outreach project aimed at improving the flow of public health news in the impoverished South.
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